Words to cute Hawaiian song?

Question

In 1980, when I was 8, I visited the Hawaiian islands. My family went to a show that had the story told of the early island history done with the wild dancing and singing Hawaiian music.
During the intermission, there was an adorable song I believe was called, "I Want to Learn to Talk Hawaiian." It was sung by a white man and a pretty Hawaiian woman gave him a few Hawaiian phrases to repeat, but she went too fast for him.
Since I was 8, that was the best part of the show for me and I never forgot it, but I was hoping that someone else remembered it and had the lyrics for it, both the man's and the woman's parts.
Anyone out there willing to share them with me?

Answer 1

I found two songs that might fit, I WANT TO LEARN TO SPEAK HAWAIIAN and O'BRIEN IS TRYIN' TO LEARN TO TALK HAWAIIAN. The link to both lyric sets are below. It doesn't sound quite like the show you mentioned, but maybe the singers were improvising a bit.

Answer 2

I Want To Learn To Speak Hawaiian - Words & music by Johnny Noble

I want to learn to speak Hawaiian
Then I can say the sweetest things to you
I want to learn to sing Hawaiian
So I can do the hula hula too

I've learned to say aloha nui `oe
The sweetest little words I ever knew
And when I am a kama`äina
Its going to thrill me thru and thru

Chorus:
Honi käua wikiwiki
They taught me on the beach at Waikiki
Wela ka hao meaning whoop-ee
I am learning them fast you can see

So after all what does it matter
If I should stutter on a word or two
I want to learn to speak Hawaiian
Cause I'm pupule, simply crazy over you

Source: Noble's Hawaiian Favorites Copyright 1935,63 Miller Music Corp

John Avery Noble was born in Honolulu on September 17, 1892. Called the 'Hawaiian Jazz King,' Noble started out selling newspapers and whistling tunes on request on Honolulu street corners. The 'whistling newsboy' eventually became accomplished on drums, piano and xylophone. He became an orchestra leader, performer, composer, student of Hawaiian culture, impressario and arranger. Early on, he became friends with Sonny Kunha, and joined him as one of the leading forces in hapa haole music.

Like Harry Owens, Noble's first rise to fame came as the leader of a major hotel orchestra, in his case, the Moana Hotel. He felt that jazz and Hawaiian music blended beautifully and immediately began to shape the sound of the orchestra. He had no brass in the orchestra, and the mellow sound they produced became the standard of the time. He later went on to supervise all types of entertainment for the beachside hotels and country clubs, while also leading a number of amateur choirs.

But as a composer and arranger, Noble really became a great composer of hapa haole tunes; many are still standards. He specialized in light, lively, and often humorous songs, including 'My Little Grass Shack', 'King Kamehameha,' 'Hula Blues' and he is responsible for 'jazzing up' and making 'The Hawaiian War Chant' hugely popular. As with the latter song, he also took many traditional Hawaiian songs and published them for the first time, sometimes in their original form, often transcribed into modern musical idoms. In 1935, he became the first Hawaiian composer inducted into ASCAP. Continued at: http://www.squareone.org/Hapa/noble.html